Shloka 184
Tīrtha-yātrā: Phalaśruti and Sacred Geography from Lohitya to Prayāga
Pulastya’s Instruction
आदित्यस्याश्रमो यत्र तेजोराशेमहात्मन: । तम्मिंस्तीर्थे नर: स्नात्वा पूजयित्वा विभावसुम्
ādityasyāśramo yatra tejorāśe mahātmanaḥ | tasmiṃs tīrthe naraḥ snātvā pūjayitvā vibhāvasum ||
ထိုနေရာ၌ အလင်းရောင်အစုအဝေးကဲ့သို့ တောက်ပသော မဟာအတ္တမန် အာဒိတျ၏ အာရှရမ်ရှိ၏။ ထိုသန့်ရှင်းသော တီရ္ထ၌ ရေချိုးပြီးနောက်၊ တောက်ပသူ ဝိဘ္ဟာဝသု (အလင်းရောင်၏ သခင်) ကို ပူဇော်ရမည်ဟု ဆို၏။
घुलस्त्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse links inner and outer purification: one should bathe at a tīrtha (ritual cleansing and moral renewal) and then offer worship to the divine principle of light/radiance, suggesting that sanctity is fulfilled by both disciplined action and reverent devotion.
The speaker points out a specific sacred location—Āditya’s hermitage and its associated tīrtha—and prescribes the customary pilgrimage act: bathe there and worship the radiant deity (Vibhāvasu), marking the site as spiritually efficacious within the tīrtha-travel context of the Vana Parva.